"In The Stillness Between Two Waves of the Sea" was selected as one of the Memorable Art Events of 2018 by Contributor Kristine Schomaker from ArtAndCakeLA Art Magazine of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.

...The phrase “cartography of places” best captures the essence of what makes this show so special. As the viewer moves from piece to piece, they become aware that a story is being mapped out. The sea, as a physical entity and as a romantic notion, is the connective thread that weaves throughout the storyline....

Plankton: Wonders of life, under the auspices of the Hellenic Center for Marine Research & the University of Patras, @Gounaropoulos Museum, Athens, Greece. Traveling to The Archaeological Museum of Patras, Patras, Greece: December 2018 - January 2019. Duration of the exhibition in Athens: April 18-June 16, 2018

I grew up in Alyki of Paros, Greece. I graduated from Athens School of Fine Arts in 2010 and went to the US to pursue my MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2011, where I graduated in 2013. Since then, I live and work in both lands. I carry my island with me everywhere and it shapes the way I see the world....

San Francisco artist Dimitra Skandali is long accustomed to going with the flow. Raised on the Greek island of Paros, she made her way to the city to pursue her master’s degree at San Francisco Art Institute in 2011, thinking she’d continue to create installations with branches and blossoms, or chicken wire and lightbulbs....

“The Ocean After Nature”: San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts these days is hosting exhibits that blend art, politics and current events. [...] And “Ocean After Nature,” which opened last week and runs through Aug. 28, features more than 20 works in various mediums that examine how oceans uniquely reflect the impact of a rapidly changing world. Bay Area artist Dimitra Skandali, known for her seaweed art and other sea-themed works, will be represented in the traveling exhibit.

Wendy Vogel reviews The Ocean After Nature exhibition for Frieze. In her review, Vogel explores the “meditative, essayistic approaches to the theme” of the exhibition taken by the 20 artists and collectives featured in The Ocean After Nature.

…the exhibition’s strength is in its framing of the ocean not just as a site of environmental catastrophe, but as a metaphor for all in nature that cannot be tamed. This is best expressed in works that consider the ocean’s affective qualities – as in Renée Green’s film Endless Dreams and Water Between (2009), an epistolary exchange about ‘archipelago mind’ – rather than in a single powerful image. By offering more poetic speculations than activist solutions, ‘The Ocean After Nature’ is like a diver, breaking the surface to plumb the depths of our perceptions....

The Ocean After Nature provokes viewers to reconsider the contours of global capitalism. It does not explore the plaza or the town square, widely thought to have supplanted the factory floor as the foremost sites of political expression. And it does not really explore the gaseous, diffuse networks of international finance that many political-economic theorists consider the definitive feature of contemporary capital circulation. The exhibition, curated by Alaina Claire Feldman, centres instead on the transport of goods and bodies and bodies-as-goods across bodies of water, a hallmark of globalisation with a pervasive impact on everyday life that’s often neglected in the age of seemingly instantaneous commerce online....

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts announces the debut of the traveling exhibition The Ocean After Nature, on view June 17 through August 28, 2016. Curated by Alaina Claire Feldman and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, the exhibition explores the ocean as a site reflecting the ecological, cultural, political, and economic realities of a globalized world. ...

As KQED joins the BBC at the Monterey Aquarium for a three-day maritime extravaganza, BIG BLUE LIVE in the coming days, KQED Arts marks the occasion with profiles of 10 Bay Area artists mining the depths of that same ocean.

enfolding was a piece that I made for the MAKE SPACE show at Berkeley Art Center, curated by Aimee Le Duc. Made from debris and sounds harvested from around the Berkeley Art Center. Video by Heejin Jang

6885 miles was the piece I made for the NextNewCA show at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art: an exhibition that featured a sampling of works by 2012 and 2013 graduates from 11 MFA programs across CA state including University of Southern California (USC), San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), California College of the Arts (CCA), Claremont Graduate University (CGU), Mills College (Mills), California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), San Francisco State University (SFSU), San Jose State University (SJSU), University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), University of California Berkeley, and Stanford University.

"For site-specific relevance nothing else in the show compared Dimitra Skandali’s installation of huge seaweed ball nearby gave off a musky scent, intensifying the maritime feel; but the bigger payoff from her part of the installation came from visual stimuli: woven strands which made the catacomb-like space appear even spookier than it actually is. (It received the Anne Bremer Memorial Prize, SFAI's best-in-show award.)"